If you want them to pay more taxes, then change the tax code to eliminate loop holes. No one could honestly say they would voluntarily pay income tax if they could legally get around it. The reason they are creating jobs in India and China is because that is where the growth is. At least this way, its a company which has its headquarters in america profiting, rather than a Chinese corporation. At least 130,000 out of 300,000 job are in america, but I guess if that's not 100% than your not happy.
@15Arigold The reason the tax loopholes are there in the first place is because the corporations, through lobbyist, pay the politicians we elect to create new and exciting ways to raise our taxes while lowering theirs. It does not matter who we put into office, the money that is thrown at them the moment they walk throught the door is enough to change all of their values. Look at Obama, all the promisses he made, now he wants to cut taxes for corporations.
We are planning to tar and feather Jeffrey Immelt, and afterwords we'll ask him to speak on "American Exceptional-ism" so that we can more completely grasp the importance of worshiping corporations, and begging for the jobs they want to pay below minimum wages for.
Does this commentator actually think GE payed zero dollars in taxes?
Please review facts before you make your claims.
Just to clarify... GE payed $2.7 Billion in cash income taxes, and over $1 Billion in sales/property/state taxes... When you say "GE payed NO taxes" I'm sure many of your listeners will interpret that literally.
romanmir01: so you prefer to be robbed by the corporations rather than the government? If you call taxes robbery, well at least that is Robin Hood robbery whereas corporations just keep their loot. Well, this is how government should work but not so with these crooks in office.
People in those countries root for those corporations because they hire people in their own country, pay their taxes, and aren’t welfare queens who hide their profits in tax havens and receive billions in tax dollars to do it. Change all those things and maybe we will consider rooting for you.
12 people dislike this.... 848 like it.... TOTAL 860.... 12/860= 1.395%.... sounds about right.... also sounds like maybe some of the 99% can't afford a regular connection to the internet... GO FIGURE!
I am 68 years old I made a good live in as a working person I was an industrial electrician I put three children to college. Now days a electrician cannot feed himself and his wife. Because most of the corporations Sent the jobs overseas. In the past we hung people for treason for less. Stealing the wealth of a country to me is same as a invading army taking the wealth. Only time I would say who-raw if you Jeff Immelt and other CEOs were hanging on the end of a rope where you belong.
All of this has stuff Americans are now recognizing has been happening in Puerto Rico. A disregard to the Puerto Rican population with corporations ran sacking the island and destroying puerto rico economy.
@EmeterioBetances I am sorry that people sometimes cannot see a problem until it's right on their doorstep. Unfortunately people aren't properly educated about what's happening outside their immediate experience. People have 2research things like this+most people are lazy about research. I am not an American, but I would say.. don't be as upset about your own past losses as you are thankful for (as well as sympathetic to) the people who have now seen the light+are going through the same problems
That legal entity GE, he's a good person (since corporations are legal people), I love him, he's so funny and he's just living the American dream, yea he's a billionaire and has nothing in common with anybody living in the real world, but hey, evil people have feelings too.....
Cenk, I'm so glad MSNBC didn't get to keep you. We are so lucky to have you man, I know we can't pay you like GE, but damn we do love you. Love don't pay your bills, but I've got a secret, a little hummingbird told me...
Mr. GE your business model is a short term rape and plunder scheme. You and your precious shareholders have been taking a shit in your own drinking water for decades! Now payback is coming.
Uh, in most other countries indigenous corporations actually employ their own countrymen. And yet I've heard this exact rhetoric before, usually from douchebag right wing pundits they put on NPR. Apple might manufacture iPhones in China, but we should be proud that the handful of highly paid programmers and designers were American. It's communist to think they OWE us a job anyway, we should be proud to just be from the same country as these titans of industry!
Jeff Immelt doesn't have a fucking clue about Germany and Siemens ... Siemens in Germany acutally creates jobs and they don't outsource ... I my hometown Siemens is one of the biggest employers ... they have expanded, bought Flender. Siemens doesn't run away like the american pussy corporations ...
@NobbyBear08 ...and German manufacturing companies have union members on their executive board as well. All business decisions are made with the people for the people.
@NobbyBear08 FYI... Siemens has roughly 420,000 employees worldwide. From that, roughly 130,000 of them are employed in Germany (31%). GE has roughly 300,000 employees worldwide, with roughly 130,000 employed in the United States (43%)... Just a thought...
@pimpalaya So how long have you been an Executive at GE?
Do they pay you to troll social media sites to drum up support for them. You can spit out all the numbers you want, the fact of the matter is most Americans are un or underemployed and hurting. No statistic you spew is going to persuade anyone any different. American corporations are making record profits and all of that money is going to upper management while blue collar workers are overworked, underpaid and overtaxed.
EVERY ONE STOP VOTING REPUBICAN TO HAVE AMERICA. BECAUSE THEY ARE KILLING THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THEY ARE OUT TO MAKE THE RICH RICHER WITH THEM PAYING THEIR FARE SHAIR IN TAX AND HAVE THE LOWER CLASS TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING.
Now that I have thuroghly you liberal in every concievable way, by a strong dish of the truth, I think Ill go to a corporation... Taco Bell, and have some burrittos
I know I have embarrased you with pure logic, but take it as a lesson, not an ass whippin'. Im glad I can educate you liberals...lord knows Cenk wont. He just keeps spouting the same old Marxist dribble.
THis is why you liberals look pathetic and the teaparty owns you on election day. You whine about corporations instead of going out and forming your own corporations. Go make your own, and then you can pay all the taxes you want. Stop counting other peoples money. This poor attitude thaty ou libs have will mean your going to be always poor. If your black, it means youll always be on the plantation, DEPENDING on your massa.
@calimar28 Can't believe I used to be like you. Born and raised conservative until I realized how hypocritical I needed to be to keep saying things like that.
I own my own business, employ workers and earn a good living. And even I know the system is messed up. I have no illusions, few people could ever get the same breaks as I do. Why should I keep getting a helping hand? Why should I get the benefits while everyone else gets the burden? I don't need any more breaks. Help them.
FFS, can a corporate CEO or PR person just once come out and say 'Yes, we as humans care but we're part of a corporation which only exists for profit. That means sometimes many people need to lose for us to win. That's just the nature of Capitalism.'
I could respect that. Stop pretending like you're on our side and stop acting like you're any sort of victim.
So stop attacking the corporations. Be grateful that there are a few left. They provide jobs. Show proper appreciation for corporations and stop the class warfare. Your like a bunch of whiney jealous kids that want Jimmy's shiney red bike next door. Stop being jealous of Jimmy, and go earn your own shiney red bike.
These advisers, especially GE CEO, perspective is to help themselves vs. the country. More tax cuts for them, screw the middle class/poor. Frankly, it's also Obama's fault. He accepted their money in 2008, which he in turn elected Goldman Sachs lobbyist as his Treasury Secretary and GE as his "jobs adviser". It's really sad.
GE literally didnt pay 1 cent in taxes last year and these fucktwits still rant on about how we need to support businesses more. this shit is depressing lol.
"The list of GE businesses varies over time as the result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. GE's tax return is the largest filed in the United States; the 2005 return was approximately 24,000 pages when printed out, and 237 megabytes when submitted electronically. The company also spends more on U.S. lobbying than any other company." Hmm, seems like there should be laws against this. Maybe we could call them something like against-trust, or to that affect...
Thats because German and Japanese corporations care abount their employees and their country, Take Audi for example the employees of audi have a very strong union. And they are involved in alot of decisions the company makes.
Quality of life is also much better in Germany, so is the quality of education.
In the US its the rich against the poor and the rich are winning. They arent gonna stop till the poor revolts
This CEO is an idiot. If GE did things to improve people's lives substantially, people would be for it. As it is, GE is just a drain on society, so people are against it. It's not really that complicated.
@coopclauson GE actually does do lot of good. They employ alot of american engineers, they also are one of the largest defense contractors, them and lockheed martin make alot of the aircrafts we use to fight our wars of profit.
They also make a hole host of stuff.
The problem is they are like all american corporations just trying to maximise profits and its more profitable to manipulate the system rather than contribute more to society
@3star2nr And they wont contribute any more than they have to, Iand I dont blame them. Beecause the money will be wasted on Solyndra, or Sunpower, or some other goverment waste. Why arent you libs protesting the god damn waste of washington? Then we wouldnt need so much coporate money...
Do you know how much money was wasted in Irak by no bid "cost plus" contrats to KBR? It dwarfs Solyndra many folds. Waste is much more a republican thing thant a liberal thing.
@frepi Its both. And hte teaparty wont accept waste from both parties anymore. But what about Solyndra? Or Sunpower? Lets talk about it, shall we? That is going on right now!
I'll bet that in all future posts you'll only mention Obama funding solyndra, but not the guaranteed loans or the giveaways that bush, barton and other republiscum gave them hypocritical motherfucker
@dffykvn Wrong you liberal puss, I dont like Bush either. He wasnt even CLOSE to conservative. He funded all kind of bullshit.
But he is old history. Right now Obama is president. And he just gave 500 million to Solyndra who just went bankrupt! He gave 1.2 BILLION to Sunpower, and they are about to go bankrupt. Obama should be held to account for this shit. We are 15 trillion in debt, and he gives away taxpayer money to fantasy green energy bullshit, so he could get Solyndra to donate. Nice
Read the article, the republicans who supported giving money hand over fist are still in office...but apparently the ones who are more than happy to do the same **** barry oilbomber does are off limits.
@dffykvn Your the miscreant that acts like a retard and wont listen. IM ALSO AGAINST PHONEY CONSERVATIVES WHO DO THE SAME GOD DAMN THING. Can you hear? Are you retarded or in some way mentally challenged? Are you slow?
@calimar28 Surreeeee, that's why you only mention obama and "libruls" but never mention barton or the other conservascum.
I wouldn't complain about making fun of president trojan horse because he's as liberal as fucking reagan, just make sure to include other republicreeps that are honest about their affiliation.
@dffykvn Hey, the last president that was a real conservative and was a good president was Cooledge and before him, Harding. The 1920's. You have to go back to the 1920's to find a conservative president. No, not Reagan in the 80's. He talked like a conservative, but his actions were very liberal.
@dffykvn Why should we close the loopholes? That will only encourage goverment to keep wasting money on wars, nation building, 80,000 refugeees a year, handing billions in foriegn aid, etc etc etc. When goverment is in control and stops ALL waste, then the teaparty will close the loopholes. Get back to us when that happens.
@dffykvn Sure I can, know why? Because the money would not be put toward paying the debt. It would be spend on bullshit and wasted in 100 different ways...like it is now. We can stop the waste, live on half of what the govt takes in now, and STILL cover Medicare, SS, and the essentials.
@dffykvn No Hoover was no conservative. He was a "neocon"...a liberal so called conservative. He spent like a sailor until FDR came in and spent even more. FDR NEVER got us out of the depression. He died in office 12 years later, and we were still in the depression. Obama is doing the same thing FDR did.
If Obama took the 800 billion "stimulus" and handed it out to all of us, we would of got 15,000 dollars a piece! That would of done a hella lot more good then handing it over to defucnt corporations that give him "donations" Obama is corrupt...it was a quid pro quo with Solyndra. He loanded them after being advised not to, but also after he got DONATSIONS FROM THEM. Obama is as dirty as it gets.
@calimar28 You know what was just as destimulative?
All of those fucking tax cuts!
The "stimulus" was made up of 1/3 tax cuts...the least effective form of stimulus, the republicans gutted infrastructure spending...one of the MOST stimulative things you can spend money on after food stamps.
It's amazing, you nits sabotage something then bitch about how it didn't work as effectively as advertised while trying to wipe your handprints off of it.
Food stamps have to be used on food and nothing else, they can't be pocketed or put in a bank, they have to be used to buy local goods at local store which put money into the local economy
They have the highest economic multiplier while tax cuts have the lowest.
The only worth while canadate right now is Ron Paul. But he talks like my crazy half naked uncle when he says shit like "the border fence will keep Americans trapped in America". How many Americans want to flee to Mexico? LOL.
But mostley Ron makes sense. I just hate it when he says something demeaning like that.
Hi, I'm the CEO of GE! I gladly use lobbyist money to fund the White House, Obama administration, and especially the increasingly growing movement of a corporate fascist state in this country! Hope all of you enjoy!
@jayops We do, and thank you Jeff. Unlike the liberals on this channel, I appreciate what you and GE does...although Im none too happy about your liberal format on MSNBC. It speaks against you! Jeff, would you consider changing MSNBC's failed format, to a profitable conservative format?
ge are also behind the anti-immigration policies in arinzoa and alabama, they have enourmous shares in the private prison companies, cca and others, you people should root for them they're fulfilling your fukin disgusting will of imprisoning illegal immgrants for profit, locking them for years just like you racist fukers want
@eight18 Oh you like mass illegal immigration? Do you know how many Mexicans legally immigrate here every year? 175, 900 immigrate here LEGALLY every year...far more than anyone else. China is a distant second with 50, 900. That's not enough? We have a 9.2% unemployment rate, a broke govt that is 15 trillion in debt, and you want to legalize 15 million illegal (mostley) Mexicans?
@calimar28 i already gave up tryin to reason with you selfish spoiled dumfuk free market terrorists, you guys had no problem intervening in countless countries and placing free market laws, but now that the results of that have reach you here in the form of outsourced jobs, and desperate illegals, you guys blame them and not yourselves, i doubt you racist fukers will ever smarten up but at least you can be honest and bot pretend to be liberal like most of these so called "liberals"
@eight18 Im not for wars or nation building, so dont go there. What happened to your voice on Solyndra? 500 million of OUR money, down the drain because Solyndra gave donations to Obama! What about Sunpower? Another solar comapny that Obama gave 1.2 BILLION too! This, after their market price went from 107 dollars per share, down to...7 dollars a share...junk status. And you think giving Sunpower 1.2 billion of taxpayer money (that we dont have) was a good investment? Thats creating jobs?
@calimar28 In 2009, I defended his stimulus package, which including a part about saving the aviation industry. Two things happened. First, Obama started making a case against "corporate jet owners" getting something they didn't need and for no reason. Well, there was a reason, that was his stimulus plan to save aviation! When he stopped using that line, I looked into it, and GE has an aviation branch. And "corporate jet owners" have their tax break. Same political games he accuses repubs of.
Im thinking of throwing my hat in the ring...what do ya think? ;) President Calimar28...hmm, I think I like. My 10 & 20 plan is just what this nation needs.
Of course I cant really run...you liberals would pick me apart with screams of "racism" just because I tell the truth about race. Truth telling is not allowed if your running for office.
Poor people shouldn't have to pay taxes, no sales tax either, why should poor people pay taxes if the government isn't going to do what the poor people want it to do.
I am tired of hearing the misconception that there is envy towards the wealthy. That’s not it at all. The real problem is the greed of corporations and their lack of responsibility. If only they were contributing to society, instead of demolishing it, would we be rooting for them.
@CooKieRocKy Yeah sure. I remember how much you were routing for them in the 90's before they went to China. You routed for them so much, that Clinton raised them from 36% to 39.5% on income tax, and raised corporate taxes to 35% (state and local together).
As a teaparty conservative, allow me to make a suggestion:
A 10 and 20 tax. Two tax brackets...a 20% for the rich, 20% for a corporate tax, and a 10% income tax for everyone else. And write the law so that if the upper bracket of 20% is raised, then the lower bracket goes up the same percentage, automatically. Cut out all that class warfare bullshit. No loopholes, no deductions FOR ANYONE.
That would do it right there. Hey liberals, are you game?
@calimar28 the top tax rate for the rich needs to be 90 percent like back with eisenhower, a republican president, the rich need to build there wealth over time. they need to plan and think ahead not see how fast i can get it now.
@travis18haney Times has changed...In the 50's coprations couldnt flee to China. You liberals keep saying the GOP wants to live in the 50's...but here you are talking about a president in the 50's! Eisenhower was a liberal republican anyway.
@calimar28 i know but if you look at how when reagan started to lower taxes then the economy started to get worse. it was reagan, bush 1, clinton, and bush 2 and obama that like tax cuts. we had bushs tax cuts for the rich for 10 years now and they obviously dont work.
@undeadnow Im telling you my 10 and 20 plan is enough to pay for SS and medicare, and other govt programs THAT ARE NESSACARY, but only if we are willing to cut wasteful spending. Giving billions to other countries is not frugel spending. Bringing in 80,000 refugees a year is not smart spending. Depts of education and energy (both disasters) cost us 120 billion a year, is not smart spending. Wars and nation building in 130 nations, not smart. Cut all that shit out, and my 10 & 20 plan is perfect.
Plus my 10 & 20 plan will lure corporations back to America. They will go to soutren states where they dont have to put up with crappy unions. Or we can keep doing what we are doing, and go bankrupt and have next to no corporations here.
That is the real question...what are liberals willing to do, to get the corporations to come back? It's a simple question. Forget about Al Sharptons "fair share" and all that bullshit, and deal with reality. They are gone...we need them back. What are you liberals willing to accept to get them to come back?
@dffykvn You wont have to worry about it, the Chinese people will be the corporate serfs, there wont be any corporations here to head the serfs. And what are you libs going to do about it? Nothing. I laugh right now at you liberals, always bad mouthing the corporations. Ok, they are leaving, now what?
Corporate tax repatriation created NO jobs when it was tried in 2004. The biggest companies to benefit from it cut American jobs and moved them overseas.
They also invested more overseas in the hope that at some point they'd get another free "repatriation" of their profits without taxes, in which case the cycle would just repeat itself with more lost American jobs.
The Koch-funded Heritage Foundation is making robocalls to homes claiming someone might come by your house to try to get your signature to commit identity theft and not to sign anything.
I'll root for companies that I've worked for and had a good experience. I'll root for companies that donate to charities. I'll root for companies that employ Americans instead of Chinese or Indians at a fraction of the cost. But GE doesn't fit any of those categories.
@ypsidan04 How can you blame corporations for leaving? I would (and have). A 35% corporate tax? SERIOUSLY? 36% personal income tax? Property tax, state tax, payroll tax (15%), electric tax, telephone tax, it comes to about 60% of a rich persons income. AND YOU BLAME THEM FOR LEAVING? OR LOOKING FOR LOOPHOLES?
The problem is govt spending. Wars, nation building, depts of education and energy, welfare for 80,000 refugees per year...I could go on...
every time a businessman/republican politician/millionaire (same thing) says "STOP ATTACKING WEALTHY PPL AND CORPORATIONS" i want to play a fuckin violin while the studio audience in the background goes "aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww"
Jeff Immelt is Obama's point man for creating American jobs, which tells you as much about him as this video does about Immelt. They're both assholes who enthusiastically serve the system. Fuck the rest of us. We're just collateral damage.
I think there's a deeper sentiment here... We COULD root for GE if they ya know... Paid taxes. I don't know their environmental record, or how many jobs they ship overseas, but on the matter of taxes alone, where the tax payer ends up GIVING them money, I can't root for you on that alone, bub. When you're the good guy, I can root for you.
The "yea, GE yea! America yea! Flag yea! patriot yea" part cenk said and the rest of what he said = what people in my country think of how americans act and hey its kinda true.
I am no for or against corporations per say...but don't make me laugh about this patriotism bullshit when it comes to American corporations.
Simple analogy:
American Corporations are to patriotism as street hookers are to modesty. Or, better yet, American Corporations are for "love of country" as the average Tea Party Republican is for acceptance of facts.
@persebra Yes, I do. I support all corporations going overseas, and that is exactly what is going to happen. Even the most extreme liberals admit that there is no stopping it. This goverment and it's lazy people got greedy as hell, started a huge welfare state and started robbing the corporations of 35% (not to mention the owners income tax which is 36%). That is horrible. Well, if you assumed the corporations would always be here, you assumed wrong. Now what will you do to get them back?
@calimar28 LOL you IDIOT! yeah, the corporations are leaving this "socialist state" and moving to COMMUNIST CHINA!!!! LOL! you dumb fuck. let them leave, tax them if they are shipping jobs overseas. lets let main street. the small businesses. the laziest people of all are tea baggin loons who have time to write dozens of propanda shit on youtube. how can you call yourself "hardworking", when do you even have time to work? LIAR!
it's disturbing to see that people haven't realized republican and democrat politicians are exactly the same. the differences they claim to have are only a ploy for the common, so we can point our finger at the opposers. they are all corrupt; they all work for the same goal: to keep a certain elite in power. it reminds me of a south park episode...should i vote for the turd or the douchebag?
well amercans can learn what capitalism is all about and then you go an cry that socialism is so bad!
smallpotatoes989 1 month ago
he just do not give a shit!
smallpotatoes989 1 month ago
have you noticed that he does not blink!
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my idea is if general electric can make all typees and all kinds of electric telescopes for seeing planets stars galexiies etc
mikedjamotsky 2 months ago
If you want them to pay more taxes, then change the tax code to eliminate loop holes. No one could honestly say they would voluntarily pay income tax if they could legally get around it. The reason they are creating jobs in India and China is because that is where the growth is. At least this way, its a company which has its headquarters in america profiting, rather than a Chinese corporation. At least 130,000 out of 300,000 job are in america, but I guess if that's not 100% than your not happy.
15Arigold 2 months ago
@15Arigold The reason the tax loopholes are there in the first place is because the corporations, through lobbyist, pay the politicians we elect to create new and exciting ways to raise our taxes while lowering theirs. It does not matter who we put into office, the money that is thrown at them the moment they walk throught the door is enough to change all of their values. Look at Obama, all the promisses he made, now he wants to cut taxes for corporations.
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Yep, and he owns left wing MSNBC. Remember that the next time you see Ed Schultz or Al Sharpton bitching about rich people taxes.
DemonicPuppet83 2 months ago
Yep, and he owns left wing MSNBC. Remember that the next time you see Ed Schultz or Al Sharpton bitching about rich people taxes.
DemonicPuppet83 2 months ago
he said Semen, hehe
TheEricleeparker 3 months ago
Can Ron Paul force GE to pay tax?
CognitiveNetwork 3 months ago
We are planning to tar and feather Jeffrey Immelt, and afterwords we'll ask him to speak on "American Exceptional-ism" so that we can more completely grasp the importance of worshiping corporations, and begging for the jobs they want to pay below minimum wages for.
pjamesbda 4 months ago
This Cenk at his best!
emmmanueeel 4 months ago
Does this commentator actually think GE payed zero dollars in taxes?
Please review facts before you make your claims.
Just to clarify... GE payed $2.7 Billion in cash income taxes, and over $1 Billion in sales/property/state taxes... When you say "GE payed NO taxes" I'm sure many of your listeners will interpret that literally.
pimpalaya 4 months ago
@pimpalaya Funny how you know the exact figures when GE never released them.
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pimpalaya 4 months ago
romanmir01: so you prefer to be robbed by the corporations rather than the government? If you call taxes robbery, well at least that is Robin Hood robbery whereas corporations just keep their loot. Well, this is how government should work but not so with these crooks in office.
greenguerrilla 4 months ago
People in those countries root for those corporations because they hire people in their own country, pay their taxes, and aren’t welfare queens who hide their profits in tax havens and receive billions in tax dollars to do it. Change all those things and maybe we will consider rooting for you.
gekapat 4 months ago
Yeah, let's all root for the corrupt fuckstick who is helping to dismantle the American Dream. What an asshole.
Muzzy337 4 months ago
How concited is this guy? "I want you to root for me." Fuck you bitch!
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I bet in India they will like him
MrBitbyter 4 months ago
Be careful in what yhou are saying Cenk.
Remember, Immelt & G.E. are huge contributors to "President" Obama.
bobbytiger 4 months ago
GE is "NOT" an American company!
reasonjr1960 4 months ago
Cenk criticizing his old MSNBC boss.
I wonder if he would do this if he still had a job there.
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"Cenk criticizing his old MSNBC boss.
I wonder if he would do this if he still had a job there."
Yes he would. He has integrity. And that is why he was fired.
ChairmanKiel 4 months ago
why did i watch this? now, i'm sick to my stomach.
WikeddTung 4 months ago
Im laughing! Im glad
calimar28 4 months ago
12 people dislike this.... 848 like it.... TOTAL 860.... 12/860= 1.395%.... sounds about right.... also sounds like maybe some of the 99% can't afford a regular connection to the internet... GO FIGURE!
yokkijoy 4 months ago
I am 68 years old I made a good live in as a working person I was an industrial electrician I put three children to college. Now days a electrician cannot feed himself and his wife. Because most of the corporations Sent the jobs overseas. In the past we hung people for treason for less. Stealing the wealth of a country to me is same as a invading army taking the wealth. Only time I would say who-raw if you Jeff Immelt and other CEOs were hanging on the end of a rope where you belong.
KYKIN44 4 months ago 3
All of this has stuff Americans are now recognizing has been happening in Puerto Rico. A disregard to the Puerto Rican population with corporations ran sacking the island and destroying puerto rico economy.
EmeterioBetances 4 months ago
@EmeterioBetances I am sorry that people sometimes cannot see a problem until it's right on their doorstep. Unfortunately people aren't properly educated about what's happening outside their immediate experience. People have 2research things like this+most people are lazy about research. I am not an American, but I would say.. don't be as upset about your own past losses as you are thankful for (as well as sympathetic to) the people who have now seen the light+are going through the same problems
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@EmeterioBetances these people are now soldiers in your army.... cultivate and celebrate that you are not alone!
yokkijoy 4 months ago
That legal entity GE, he's a good person (since corporations are legal people), I love him, he's so funny and he's just living the American dream, yea he's a billionaire and has nothing in common with anybody living in the real world, but hey, evil people have feelings too.....
TheJsmth1234 4 months ago
There is a very simple but very important difference between Siemens and GE, it's down to a cultural difference between the two countries...
German elites have these things called morals.
justnotcricket 4 months ago
Cenk, I'm so glad MSNBC didn't get to keep you. We are so lucky to have you man, I know we can't pay you like GE, but damn we do love you. Love don't pay your bills, but I've got a secret, a little hummingbird told me...
...where we're going, you're already a rich man.
pjamesbda 4 months ago
@xephyr1000 wrote: "That's my short-list of demands."
I have a shorter list of demands. Just one, actually...
you wrote, 10 Oct. 2011: "@fubaraoul You're blatantly lying..."
Prove it.
I suspect you will be as eager to meet that demand as your mothe... erm, government will be to meet yours, you flag waving cretin.
lulz...
fubaraoul 4 months ago
Cenk was bloody awesome too bad hes one of the few in America with any kind of power that does this.
DRock7977 4 months ago
America on a road straigth to hell.
DRock7977 4 months ago
Mr. GE your business model is a short term rape and plunder scheme. You and your precious shareholders have been taking a shit in your own drinking water for decades! Now payback is coming.
Gypsyjiver 4 months ago
This GE guy is amazing. (try back with that rubbish in about 100 years) US folks do love apple pretty hard though.
SleepDirtyJazzySet 4 months ago
Cenk was priceless in there!!!!!!!
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October 15th 2011 Worldwide Revolution,
13holywarriors 4 months ago
2:17 is a funny still.
KlipKultur5 4 months ago
Uh, in most other countries indigenous corporations actually employ their own countrymen. And yet I've heard this exact rhetoric before, usually from douchebag right wing pundits they put on NPR. Apple might manufacture iPhones in China, but we should be proud that the handful of highly paid programmers and designers were American. It's communist to think they OWE us a job anyway, we should be proud to just be from the same country as these titans of industry!
trilobright 4 months ago
Ge sucks he horrible ge die
aman111501 4 months ago
One of the heads of Obama's Jobs Commission.
ThePoliDick 4 months ago
You suck Jeff Immelt! lol
FunkadelicSurprise 4 months ago
GE: Manufacturing Bulbs, Bombs, and More!
FunkadelicSurprise 4 months ago
I like how cenk is so animated lol. I also agree with him when he calls are government bought hookers lol
CBPfilm 4 months ago
Is kick-backs to friends a form of taxes?
Fockersnextdoor 4 months ago
Jeff Immelt doesn't have a fucking clue about Germany and Siemens ... Siemens in Germany acutally creates jobs and they don't outsource ... I my hometown Siemens is one of the biggest employers ... they have expanded, bought Flender. Siemens doesn't run away like the american pussy corporations ...
NobbyBear08 4 months ago 23
@NobbyBear08 ...and German manufacturing companies have union members on their executive board as well. All business decisions are made with the people for the people.
Gypsyjiver 4 months ago
@NobbyBear08 FYI... Siemens has roughly 420,000 employees worldwide. From that, roughly 130,000 of them are employed in Germany (31%). GE has roughly 300,000 employees worldwide, with roughly 130,000 employed in the United States (43%)... Just a thought...
pimpalaya 4 months ago 2
@pimpalaya So how long have you been an Executive at GE?
Do they pay you to troll social media sites to drum up support for them. You can spit out all the numbers you want, the fact of the matter is most Americans are un or underemployed and hurting. No statistic you spew is going to persuade anyone any different. American corporations are making record profits and all of that money is going to upper management while blue collar workers are overworked, underpaid and overtaxed.
marvenp 2 months ago
Hilarious blog on this entire interview!
Twitter: @LZcorrespondent
thelazycorrespondent 4 months ago
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EVERY ONE STOP VOTING REPUBICAN TO HAVE AMERICA. BECAUSE THEY ARE KILLING THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THEY ARE OUT TO MAKE THE RICH RICHER WITH THEM PAYING THEIR FARE SHAIR IN TAX AND HAVE THE LOWER CLASS TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING.
sonofatiger 4 months ago
When the clown from GE was talking the Republicans was licking their television screen, hoping the camera would aim at the GE clown's behind.
666brainiac 4 months ago
In Germany, and China corporations are NOT considered people!
People who are more valuable then the average citizen!
TruthAndMoreTruth 4 months ago
@TruthAndMoreTruth : In Germany and China, they don't believe in minimum wages.
tooltalk 4 months ago
Is that the mum in 2 and a half men?
SeanFerrol 4 months ago
I think a famous song sums up corporations best with this line.
"I'M A HUSTLA BEEEEEBEEEAAAAHHH!!!...I JUST WANT YOU TO KNO"...
blckjade05 4 months ago
I'm tired of these politicians trickin! They don't even have licences for prostitutes here.
kindertoob 4 months ago
You pay as little taxes as possible if any at all
You outsource as much work as possible
The few employees left here are paid as little as possible with as few benefits as possible
and when it comes to extra profits vs not laying off workers its no contest...
Cheer for you?? yeah i will cheer when i see a real American corporation thats patriotic drive you out of business.
Tony007corp 4 months ago 41
GE can screw themselves
MONEYBOY512 4 months ago
young turks!!!!
MrMrkeithl 4 months ago
Now that I have thuroghly you liberal in every concievable way, by a strong dish of the truth, I think Ill go to a corporation... Taco Bell, and have some burrittos
I know I have embarrased you with pure logic, but take it as a lesson, not an ass whippin'. Im glad I can educate you liberals...lord knows Cenk wont. He just keeps spouting the same old Marxist dribble.
calimar28 4 months ago
calimar28 = annoying no-life retard that lives on these comments spouting shit nobody cares about.
xyzoneon 4 months ago 2
THis is why you liberals look pathetic and the teaparty owns you on election day. You whine about corporations instead of going out and forming your own corporations. Go make your own, and then you can pay all the taxes you want. Stop counting other peoples money. This poor attitude thaty ou libs have will mean your going to be always poor. If your black, it means youll always be on the plantation, DEPENDING on your massa.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Can't believe I used to be like you. Born and raised conservative until I realized how hypocritical I needed to be to keep saying things like that.
I own my own business, employ workers and earn a good living. And even I know the system is messed up. I have no illusions, few people could ever get the same breaks as I do. Why should I keep getting a helping hand? Why should I get the benefits while everyone else gets the burden? I don't need any more breaks. Help them.
aquiace 4 months ago 3
FFS, can a corporate CEO or PR person just once come out and say 'Yes, we as humans care but we're part of a corporation which only exists for profit. That means sometimes many people need to lose for us to win. That's just the nature of Capitalism.'
I could respect that. Stop pretending like you're on our side and stop acting like you're any sort of victim.
aquiace 4 months ago
So stop attacking the corporations. Be grateful that there are a few left. They provide jobs. Show proper appreciation for corporations and stop the class warfare. Your like a bunch of whiney jealous kids that want Jimmy's shiney red bike next door. Stop being jealous of Jimmy, and go earn your own shiney red bike.
calimar28 4 months ago
Best thing that came out of G.E is the beloved S6G!
MzBUZZKILINGTON 4 months ago
These advisers, especially GE CEO, perspective is to help themselves vs. the country. More tax cuts for them, screw the middle class/poor. Frankly, it's also Obama's fault. He accepted their money in 2008, which he in turn elected Goldman Sachs lobbyist as his Treasury Secretary and GE as his "jobs adviser". It's really sad.
Stingerbillion 4 months ago
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To each person that reads this, how many people do you know personally that work for GE?
chuck3377 4 months ago
GE literally didnt pay 1 cent in taxes last year and these fucktwits still rant on about how we need to support businesses more. this shit is depressing lol.
Veliuszero1 4 months ago
FU GE
joselh285 4 months ago
Isn't GE one of the largest arms producers in the world?
jared091787 4 months ago
Hahaha damn cenk he Said Japan not communist china
MALIRIPPA 4 months ago
I'll root for corporations....If they provide jobs.
Hyman74Roth 4 months ago
0:33 You couldn't get a more false statement.
harrysadlermusic 4 months ago
"The list of GE businesses varies over time as the result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. GE's tax return is the largest filed in the United States; the 2005 return was approximately 24,000 pages when printed out, and 237 megabytes when submitted electronically. The company also spends more on U.S. lobbying than any other company." Hmm, seems like there should be laws against this. Maybe we could call them something like against-trust, or to that affect...
chrlpolk 4 months ago
Thats because German and Japanese corporations care abount their employees and their country, Take Audi for example the employees of audi have a very strong union. And they are involved in alot of decisions the company makes.
Quality of life is also much better in Germany, so is the quality of education.
In the US its the rich against the poor and the rich are winning. They arent gonna stop till the poor revolts
3star2nr 4 months ago
This CEO is an idiot. If GE did things to improve people's lives substantially, people would be for it. As it is, GE is just a drain on society, so people are against it. It's not really that complicated.
coopclauson 4 months ago
@coopclauson GE actually does do lot of good. They employ alot of american engineers, they also are one of the largest defense contractors, them and lockheed martin make alot of the aircrafts we use to fight our wars of profit.
They also make a hole host of stuff.
The problem is they are like all american corporations just trying to maximise profits and its more profitable to manipulate the system rather than contribute more to society
3star2nr 4 months ago
@3star2nr And they wont contribute any more than they have to, Iand I dont blame them. Beecause the money will be wasted on Solyndra, or Sunpower, or some other goverment waste. Why arent you libs protesting the god damn waste of washington? Then we wouldnt need so much coporate money...
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28
Do you know how much money was wasted in Irak by no bid "cost plus" contrats to KBR? It dwarfs Solyndra many folds. Waste is much more a republican thing thant a liberal thing.
frepi 4 months ago
@frepi Its both. And hte teaparty wont accept waste from both parties anymore. But what about Solyndra? Or Sunpower? Lets talk about it, shall we? That is going on right now!
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Obama gave 500 million to solyndra? Well that sucks and he should be held accountable...
What about the republicans who gave money away to solyndra?
ww (w.h) uffingtonpos (t.c) om/2011/09/13/solyndra-bankrupt-solar-republican-problem_n_96028 (7.h) tml
Eat it you demented motherfucker
I'll bet that in all future posts you'll only mention Obama funding solyndra, but not the guaranteed loans or the giveaways that bush, barton and other republiscum gave them hypocritical motherfucker
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn Wrong you liberal puss, I dont like Bush either. He wasnt even CLOSE to conservative. He funded all kind of bullshit.
But he is old history. Right now Obama is president. And he just gave 500 million to Solyndra who just went bankrupt! He gave 1.2 BILLION to Sunpower, and they are about to go bankrupt. Obama should be held to account for this shit. We are 15 trillion in debt, and he gives away taxpayer money to fantasy green energy bullshit, so he could get Solyndra to donate. Nice
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Not just bush you kneejerk asshat.
Read the article, the republicans who supported giving money hand over fist are still in office...but apparently the ones who are more than happy to do the same **** barry oilbomber does are off limits.
Try reading the article next time asshat.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn Your the miscreant that acts like a retard and wont listen. IM ALSO AGAINST PHONEY CONSERVATIVES WHO DO THE SAME GOD DAMN THING. Can you hear? Are you retarded or in some way mentally challenged? Are you slow?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Surreeeee, that's why you only mention obama and "libruls" but never mention barton or the other conservascum.
I wouldn't complain about making fun of president trojan horse because he's as liberal as fucking reagan, just make sure to include other republicreeps that are honest about their affiliation.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn Hey, the last president that was a real conservative and was a good president was Cooledge and before him, Harding. The 1920's. You have to go back to the 1920's to find a conservative president. No, not Reagan in the 80's. He talked like a conservative, but his actions were very liberal.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 The problem that I see is tax dodgers and countless loopholes that exist for the wealthy
If you have decades of tax income lost through loopholes then no wonder there's a fucking revenue crisis
But no we can't close loopholes! Those unfair advantages are GASP! TAX INCREASES!!!!! NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!
dffykvn 4 months ago 3
@dffykvn Why should we close the loopholes? That will only encourage goverment to keep wasting money on wars, nation building, 80,000 refugeees a year, handing billions in foriegn aid, etc etc etc. When goverment is in control and stops ALL waste, then the teaparty will close the loopholes. Get back to us when that happens.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 You can't complain about the debt but defend the loopholes.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn Sure I can, know why? Because the money would not be put toward paying the debt. It would be spend on bullshit and wasted in 100 different ways...like it is now. We can stop the waste, live on half of what the govt takes in now, and STILL cover Medicare, SS, and the essentials.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Ps you don't think that Hoover was a conservative? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?
The koolaid is strong in you my mentally challenged friend.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn No Hoover was no conservative. He was a "neocon"...a liberal so called conservative. He spent like a sailor until FDR came in and spent even more. FDR NEVER got us out of the depression. He died in office 12 years later, and we were still in the depression. Obama is doing the same thing FDR did.
calimar28 4 months ago
If Obama took the 800 billion "stimulus" and handed it out to all of us, we would of got 15,000 dollars a piece! That would of done a hella lot more good then handing it over to defucnt corporations that give him "donations" Obama is corrupt...it was a quid pro quo with Solyndra. He loanded them after being advised not to, but also after he got DONATSIONS FROM THEM. Obama is as dirty as it gets.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 You know what was just as destimulative?
All of those fucking tax cuts!
The "stimulus" was made up of 1/3 tax cuts...the least effective form of stimulus, the republicans gutted infrastructure spending...one of the MOST stimulative things you can spend money on after food stamps.
It's amazing, you nits sabotage something then bitch about how it didn't work as effectively as advertised while trying to wipe your handprints off of it.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn Foodstamps are stimulative? Oh, then let none of us work, and let the govt give us all foodstamps...that should be super-duper stimulative!
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 Do you want me to explain why?
Well if you actually read this:
Food stamps have to be used on food and nothing else, they can't be pocketed or put in a bank, they have to be used to buy local goods at local store which put money into the local economy
They have the highest economic multiplier while tax cuts have the lowest.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn There is a problem with that...someone has to pay. And we dont have any money. See the problem?
calimar28 4 months ago
The only worth while canadate right now is Ron Paul. But he talks like my crazy half naked uncle when he says shit like "the border fence will keep Americans trapped in America". How many Americans want to flee to Mexico? LOL.
But mostley Ron makes sense. I just hate it when he says something demeaning like that.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 His followers have some of the most whacked out conspiracy theories.
The craziest one I've heard was that "We need a politician like ron paul to stop nibiru"
Or "Paul can't get elected because the annunaki won't let them"
...Someone was making poor use of his free time in the asylum.
dffykvn 4 months ago
Hi, I'm the CEO of GE! I gladly use lobbyist money to fund the White House, Obama administration, and especially the increasingly growing movement of a corporate fascist state in this country! Hope all of you enjoy!
jayops 4 months ago
@jayops We do, and thank you Jeff. Unlike the liberals on this channel, I appreciate what you and GE does...although Im none too happy about your liberal format on MSNBC. It speaks against you! Jeff, would you consider changing MSNBC's failed format, to a profitable conservative format?
calimar28 4 months ago
ge are also behind the anti-immigration policies in arinzoa and alabama, they have enourmous shares in the private prison companies, cca and others, you people should root for them they're fulfilling your fukin disgusting will of imprisoning illegal immgrants for profit, locking them for years just like you racist fukers want
eight18 4 months ago
@eight18 Oh you like mass illegal immigration? Do you know how many Mexicans legally immigrate here every year? 175, 900 immigrate here LEGALLY every year...far more than anyone else. China is a distant second with 50, 900. That's not enough? We have a 9.2% unemployment rate, a broke govt that is 15 trillion in debt, and you want to legalize 15 million illegal (mostley) Mexicans?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 i already gave up tryin to reason with you selfish spoiled dumfuk free market terrorists, you guys had no problem intervening in countless countries and placing free market laws, but now that the results of that have reach you here in the form of outsourced jobs, and desperate illegals, you guys blame them and not yourselves, i doubt you racist fukers will ever smarten up but at least you can be honest and bot pretend to be liberal like most of these so called "liberals"
eight18 4 months ago
@eight18 Im not for wars or nation building, so dont go there. What happened to your voice on Solyndra? 500 million of OUR money, down the drain because Solyndra gave donations to Obama! What about Sunpower? Another solar comapny that Obama gave 1.2 BILLION too! This, after their market price went from 107 dollars per share, down to...7 dollars a share...junk status. And you think giving Sunpower 1.2 billion of taxpayer money (that we dont have) was a good investment? Thats creating jobs?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 In 2009, I defended his stimulus package, which including a part about saving the aviation industry. Two things happened. First, Obama started making a case against "corporate jet owners" getting something they didn't need and for no reason. Well, there was a reason, that was his stimulus plan to save aviation! When he stopped using that line, I looked into it, and GE has an aviation branch. And "corporate jet owners" have their tax break. Same political games he accuses repubs of.
chrlpolk 4 months ago
Im thinking of throwing my hat in the ring...what do ya think? ;) President Calimar28...hmm, I think I like. My 10 & 20 plan is just what this nation needs.
Of course I cant really run...you liberals would pick me apart with screams of "racism" just because I tell the truth about race. Truth telling is not allowed if your running for office.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 As long as you remain ambiguous and never really explain what the 10 & 20 plan is, you just might have a shot in either party!
chrlpolk 4 months ago
@chrlpolk LOL yeah, my 10 & 20 plan doesnt sound like a pizza deal (999)...my plan sounds more like a blackjack bet :D
calimar28 4 months ago
Poor people shouldn't have to pay taxes, no sales tax either, why should poor people pay taxes if the government isn't going to do what the poor people want it to do.
mesmokumpeacepipe 4 months ago 38
I am tired of hearing the misconception that there is envy towards the wealthy. That’s not it at all. The real problem is the greed of corporations and their lack of responsibility. If only they were contributing to society, instead of demolishing it, would we be rooting for them.
CooKieRocKy 4 months ago in playlist More videos from TheYoungTurks
@CooKieRocKy Yeah sure. I remember how much you were routing for them in the 90's before they went to China. You routed for them so much, that Clinton raised them from 36% to 39.5% on income tax, and raised corporate taxes to 35% (state and local together).
calimar28 4 months ago
As a teaparty conservative, allow me to make a suggestion:
A 10 and 20 tax. Two tax brackets...a 20% for the rich, 20% for a corporate tax, and a 10% income tax for everyone else. And write the law so that if the upper bracket of 20% is raised, then the lower bracket goes up the same percentage, automatically. Cut out all that class warfare bullshit. No loopholes, no deductions FOR ANYONE.
That would do it right there. Hey liberals, are you game?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 the top tax rate for the rich needs to be 90 percent like back with eisenhower, a republican president, the rich need to build there wealth over time. they need to plan and think ahead not see how fast i can get it now.
travis18haney 4 months ago
@travis18haney Yeah 90%, that'll get the corporations to come back. Great plan Einstien.
calimar28 4 months ago
@travis18haney Times has changed...In the 50's coprations couldnt flee to China. You liberals keep saying the GOP wants to live in the 50's...but here you are talking about a president in the 50's! Eisenhower was a liberal republican anyway.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 i know but if you look at how when reagan started to lower taxes then the economy started to get worse. it was reagan, bush 1, clinton, and bush 2 and obama that like tax cuts. we had bushs tax cuts for the rich for 10 years now and they obviously dont work.
travis18haney 4 months ago
@calimar28 i think ur short a few billion for other programs like social secruity unlees u want more poor people get a real idea
undeadnow 4 months ago
@undeadnow Im telling you my 10 and 20 plan is enough to pay for SS and medicare, and other govt programs THAT ARE NESSACARY, but only if we are willing to cut wasteful spending. Giving billions to other countries is not frugel spending. Bringing in 80,000 refugees a year is not smart spending. Depts of education and energy (both disasters) cost us 120 billion a year, is not smart spending. Wars and nation building in 130 nations, not smart. Cut all that shit out, and my 10 & 20 plan is perfect.
calimar28 4 months ago
Plus my 10 & 20 plan will lure corporations back to America. They will go to soutren states where they dont have to put up with crappy unions. Or we can keep doing what we are doing, and go bankrupt and have next to no corporations here.
Which is it?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 What did they do to you? What made you this way?
TheFunkadelicFan 4 months ago
That is the real question...what are liberals willing to do, to get the corporations to come back? It's a simple question. Forget about Al Sharptons "fair share" and all that bullshit, and deal with reality. They are gone...we need them back. What are you liberals willing to accept to get them to come back?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 We won't accept conservatives turning the poor into corporate serfs.
dffykvn 4 months ago
@dffykvn You wont have to worry about it, the Chinese people will be the corporate serfs, there wont be any corporations here to head the serfs. And what are you libs going to do about it? Nothing. I laugh right now at you liberals, always bad mouthing the corporations. Ok, they are leaving, now what?
Be careful, DAMN careful what you wish for.
calimar28 4 months ago
Corporations are NOT national or patriotic. They go where the profits are, where the cheap labour is and where the profitable markets are. That's it.
blackmichael75 4 months ago
Corporate tax repatriation created NO jobs when it was tried in 2004. The biggest companies to benefit from it cut American jobs and moved them overseas.
They also invested more overseas in the hope that at some point they'd get another free "repatriation" of their profits without taxes, in which case the cycle would just repeat itself with more lost American jobs.
eatmorenachos 4 months ago
fuck GE lol, scumbag monopoly over 100 years after their trust was broken.
Andy180084 4 months ago
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The Koch-funded Heritage Foundation is making robocalls to homes claiming someone might come by your house to try to get your signature to commit identity theft and not to sign anything.
MrGnarus 4 months ago
I love that line, bought prostitutes of corporate America. Mammon-worshipping, Corporate Koch suckers, that's what they are.
eethry 4 months ago in playlist October 11
I'll root for companies that I've worked for and had a good experience. I'll root for companies that donate to charities. I'll root for companies that employ Americans instead of Chinese or Indians at a fraction of the cost. But GE doesn't fit any of those categories.
ypsidan04 4 months ago
@ypsidan04 How can you blame corporations for leaving? I would (and have). A 35% corporate tax? SERIOUSLY? 36% personal income tax? Property tax, state tax, payroll tax (15%), electric tax, telephone tax, it comes to about 60% of a rich persons income. AND YOU BLAME THEM FOR LEAVING? OR LOOKING FOR LOOPHOLES?
The problem is govt spending. Wars, nation building, depts of education and energy, welfare for 80,000 refugees per year...I could go on...
calimar28 4 months ago
The rules for incorporation need to be drastically modified.
"Legal personhood" for corporations is a farce when their whole purpose is to shelter ownership from liability.
Incorporation (as it exists at least) also overly-centralizes capital, reducing competition.
DemokraticRepublican 4 months ago
It did Create jobs. GE has many more CEO's than they used to.
sargetech 4 months ago
every time a businessman/republican politician/millionaire (same thing) says "STOP ATTACKING WEALTHY PPL AND CORPORATIONS" i want to play a fuckin violin while the studio audience in the background goes "aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww"
chafenhimer 4 months ago 14
Corporations do not have nationalities. They go where the profit go and do not care which country will get screwed in the process.
rasnac 4 months ago
Jeff Immelt is Obama's point man for creating American jobs, which tells you as much about him as this video does about Immelt. They're both assholes who enthusiastically serve the system. Fuck the rest of us. We're just collateral damage.
xxxxPaladinxxxx 4 months ago 3
public relations FAIL. If you want to trick us into loving your crooked no-tax paying corporation you better try harder than that.
geosunkist 4 months ago
I think there's a deeper sentiment here... We COULD root for GE if they ya know... Paid taxes. I don't know their environmental record, or how many jobs they ship overseas, but on the matter of taxes alone, where the tax payer ends up GIVING them money, I can't root for you on that alone, bub. When you're the good guy, I can root for you.
dEdGrimley 4 months ago
Having a CEO of a huge corporation working for a political party is a conflict of interests.
Chaoitcme 4 months ago
That's how they think. That's how they act.
sagemakaiserxl 4 months ago
I saw this interview right after the football game, he seemed so distinguished...
Dayonetheone 4 months ago in playlist October 11
@Dayonetheone They took alot of those jobs to Brazil, no wonder the B.R.I.C.S. countries are doing so well.
Dayonetheone 4 months ago in playlist October 11
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robben9 4 months ago
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Cenk you're a "johnny come lately" on this story, you dragged your heels allowing Bill O'Reilly to expose this horrific situation long time ago.
This represents Obowma's change we all can believe in, "yes we can, yes we can", turns out Obowma lied, haha, suckered all you dummie progressives!
so why did Cenk go to work for MSNBC which is in the tank for Obowma, never vetted the guy, only went after Bush with assholes like Keith Odormann?
tell u why, progressives are dumb as a mud fence
genie0390 4 months ago
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The "yea, GE yea! America yea! Flag yea! patriot yea" part cenk said and the rest of what he said = what people in my country think of how americans act and hey its kinda true.
Clanki 4 months ago
complete LIE about this shit! that fucker is full of lies
Clanki 4 months ago
Damn strong words ! i like it!
spaik007 4 months ago
Can you give a video a double like, and a double favorite !!! haha
I like the slice of sarcasm, thanks for speaking the TRUTH !!!
FD503 4 months ago
I am no for or against corporations per say...but don't make me laugh about this patriotism bullshit when it comes to American corporations.
Simple analogy:
American Corporations are to patriotism as street hookers are to modesty. Or, better yet, American Corporations are for "love of country" as the average Tea Party Republican is for acceptance of facts.
FlatulenceFox 4 months ago
Im thinking, this girl who was crying for Britney Spears, ohh noo GE ....
lota68 4 months ago
Cenk I love ya but stop with the impersonations
seanwue 4 months ago
I hope GE pulls MSNBC's cord and switches to conservatism, and then there will be no liberal networks on cable.
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 you support corporate tax rebates and sending jobs overseas?
persebra 4 months ago
@persebra Yes, I do. I support all corporations going overseas, and that is exactly what is going to happen. Even the most extreme liberals admit that there is no stopping it. This goverment and it's lazy people got greedy as hell, started a huge welfare state and started robbing the corporations of 35% (not to mention the owners income tax which is 36%). That is horrible. Well, if you assumed the corporations would always be here, you assumed wrong. Now what will you do to get them back?
calimar28 4 months ago
@calimar28 LOL you IDIOT! yeah, the corporations are leaving this "socialist state" and moving to COMMUNIST CHINA!!!! LOL! you dumb fuck. let them leave, tax them if they are shipping jobs overseas. lets let main street. the small businesses. the laziest people of all are tea baggin loons who have time to write dozens of propanda shit on youtube. how can you call yourself "hardworking", when do you even have time to work? LIAR!
persebra 4 months ago
He'll look really good - with his head on a spike.
audadvnc 4 months ago
I'm from Germany and I don't root for Siemens!
Doan84 4 months ago 2
@Doan84 Well how about Siemens vs GE? I'm not German but I'd root for Siemens.
nilbud 4 months ago
Council on Jobs: GE: 19,000 US job cuts in a few years
profit in 2010: $14.2 BILLION.
Taxes paid on that: $ 0
dharmaatdawn 4 months ago 4
it's disturbing to see that people haven't realized republican and democrat politicians are exactly the same. the differences they claim to have are only a ploy for the common, so we can point our finger at the opposers. they are all corrupt; they all work for the same goal: to keep a certain elite in power. it reminds me of a south park episode...should i vote for the turd or the douchebag?
dizzyd222 4 months ago